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Yes. You have to register at the Police station when you move and hospitals have to report if patients are illegal aliens. Very advanced.
by bananacurve 13y ago
Yes. You have to register at the Police station when you move and hospitals have to report if patients are illegal aliens. Very advanced.
- Tomte 13y agoYou usually register at the town's "citizen's office", where you can also pay for your garbage disposal, get parking passes, apply for your driver's license, have the lost+found, and so on. Registering at the police station is something from the sixties or seventies, I think. "Police" back then had a lot more duties that are now located in other administrative offices. But "police" is a complicated term in Germany, anyway. Legally it's not just "the guys who chase criminals". Elsewhere it's even stranger: To me "Polizei" sounds like a friendly civilian force for order, while "Miliz" sounds paramilitary and dangerous. To Russians it seems to be different.
- mschuster91 13y agoIn Croatia (I'm a multi-national) registrations actually do happen at the police office in small-ish towns. It's a culture thing, I believe...